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  12         <h1>MIT Graduate Creates Robot That Swims Through Pipes To Find Out If They're Leaking (fastcompany.com)</h1>
  13         <div class='details'>(Thursday September 06, 2018 @11:30PM (BeauHD)
  14 from the leak-detecting dept.)</div>
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  17         <li>News link: <a href='https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/18/09/06/2058201/mit-graduate-creates-robot-that-swims-through-pipes-to-find-out-if-theyre-leaking'>https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/18/09/06/2058201/mit-graduate-creates-robot-that-swims-through-pipes-to-find-out-if-theyre-leaking</a></li>
  18         <li>Source link: <a href='https://www.fastcompany.com/90232363/this-leak-seeking-robot-just-won-the-u-s-james-dyson-award'>https://www.fastcompany.com/90232363/this-leak-seeking-robot-just-won-the-u-s-james-dyson-award</a></li>
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  22                 A 28-year-old MIT graduate named You Wu spent six years developing a low-cost robot designed to find leaks in pipes early, both to save water and to avoid bigger damage later from bursting water mains. &quot;Called Lighthouse, the robot looks like a badminton birdie,&quot; reports Fast Company. &quot;A soft &#x27;skirt&#x27; on the device is covered with sensors. As it travels through pipes, propelled by the flowing water, suction tugs at the device when there&#x27;s a leak, and it records the location, making a map of critical leaks to fix.&quot; From the report: MIT doctoral student You Wu spent six years developing the design, building on research that earlier students began under a project sponsored by a university in Saudi Arabia, where most drinking water comes from expensive desalination plants and around a third of it is lost to leaks. It took three years before he had a working prototype. Then Wu got inspiration from an unexpected source: At a party with his partner, he accidentally stepped on her dress. She noticed immediately, unsurprisingly, and Wu realized that he could use a similar skirt-like design on a robot so that the robot could detect subtle tugs from the suction at each leak. Wu graduated from MIT in June, and is now launching the technology through a startup called WatchTower Robotics. The company will soon begin pilots in Australia and in Cambridge, Massachusetts. One challenge now, he says, is creating a guide so water companies can use the device on their own.
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  26     <h2>What we are not told ... (Score:1)</h2>
  27     <div class='by' style='font-style: italic;'>by Alain Williams ( 2972 )</div>
  28     <div class='comment_content'><p></p><p>is he still with his partner who's dress he trod on ?</p></div>
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  31     <h2>pig (Score:1, Informative)</h2>
  32     <div class='by' style='font-style: italic;'>by Anonymous Coward</div>
  33     <div class='comment_content'><p></p><p>Congratulations, you reinvented the pig.</p><p>[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigging</p></div>
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  40       <h2>Re: (Score:2)</h2>
  41       <div class='by' style='font-style: italic;'>by An Ominous Coward ( 13324 )</div>
  42       <div class='comment_content'><p></p><p>Ridiculous, how dare you plebeians libel our foremost technology elite. It's MIT, of course what they're doing is utterly novel and deserving of fawning media coverage.</p><p>( [1]https://puretechltd.com/technology/purerobotics-pipeline-inspection-system/ [puretechltd.com])</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>[1] https://puretechltd.com/technology/purerobotics-pipeline-inspection-system/</p></div>
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  46     <h2>They tried that robot in Montreal... (Score:2)</h2>
  47     <div class='by' style='font-style: italic;'>by ls671 ( 1122017 )</div>
  48     <div class='comment_content'><p></p><p>I hear they tried that robot in Montreal and it crashed due to memory exhaustion.</p><p>Montreal is one of the oldest city in North America and there are so many leaks in its water system that it loses 30% of its fresh water supply.</p><p>Makes you wonder what is the average water loss in other systems.</p><p>[1]https://montrealgazette.com/ne... [montrealgazette.com]</p><p>[2]https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada... [www.cbc.ca]</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>[1] https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/by-the-numbers-30-percent-of-montreals-water-is-lost-due-to-leaky-city-pipes</p><p>[2] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/city-water-leaks-wasting-millions-of-tax-dollars-1.1048035</p></div>
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  51     <h2>Badminton Birdie? (Score:2)</h2>
  52     <div class='by' style='font-style: italic;'>by TechyImmigrant ( 175943 )</div>
  53     <div class='comment_content'><p></p><p>It's called a shuttlecock you blithering idiot.</p></div>
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